Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This proposal was almost impossible for McCloy to swallow, for Germany's coal is sold abroad for dollars, and under the French scheme Germany's loss of dollars would be large. As the all-day, all-night session went on, tempers fired up and threats emerged. McCloy threatened to use the U.S.'s veto on economic matters, which he is given by the High Commission Charter. François-Poncet threatened in turn to take the dispute back to his government...
...years. The Rev. Donald Carr Sparks has been vicar there for only ten years. But to Vicar Sparks the church's drab interior and plain, pitch-pine pews seemed "very institutional." Last week, the parishioners of Bolton upon Dearne were doggedly trying out a brave new ecclesiastical color scheme-red (pews), white (walls) and blue (doors). "The whole idea," Vicar Sparks explained, "is to bring color and warmth to the church without making it gaudy...
Working on the theory that any re-routing of traffic in existing channels was only a stop-gap measure, these three devised a revolutionary scheme to redesign the entire Cambridge shopping center (see model). Creating new arteries of traffic and increasing parking space, their blueprint for a safe-and-sane Harvard Square would solve the automobile problem now faced by every city laid out in the days of the horse and buggy...
...Great Scheme...
Scholarship is skillfully added to this apparently carefree scheme. Stanford stands high on any scholastic ranking of American colleges and is generally regarded the best in the West. Its faculty salaries have always been large enough to attract top men in all fields. Admission is as tough for Californians as Harvard admission is for Easterners...